PROFESSOR PUBLISHES JAPANESE BOOK.English Professor Kenneth
Roemer recently published a book titled A Sidewalker’s
Japan: Impression Encounters. The book evolved out of essays Dr.
Roemer began in 1982 when he taught at the university in Matsue, a city
of about 140,000 in western Japan. The book, printed entirely in Japanese,
is available from www.amazon.co.jp
(ISBN 4882027658) and in Japanese bookstores. Translated, the Japanese
title is Michibata de Deatta Nippon.

REGIONAL HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYSTEM
COMES TO CAMPUS. The Department of Computer
Science and Engineering has received a three-year, $1.3 million
grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a high-performance
computing and high-bandwith storage infrastructure for interdisciplinary
research. Professor Sharma Chakravarthy is the principal
investigator of the project.

ARRI DIRECTOR RECEIVES GRANTS. Automation
& Robotics Research Institute Director of Research Frank
L. Lewis has received three National Science Foundation grants
totaling $538,000 plus a $200,000 Army Research Office grant to investigate
micro-electromechanical systems and advanced manufacturing/industrial
controls.

PROFESSORS STUDY PUBLIC HOUSING IN FORT WORTH.
School of Urban and Public
Affairs professors Edith Barrett and Paul
Geisel are leading a five-year study documenting residents’
life changes and use of social services after moving from public housing
to a mixed-income environment in Fort Worth. The research team, which
includes UTA students, is studying residents of a 268-unit public housing
complex who will choose where they will live from housing developments
called “New Urbanist” housing.

PROFESSOR RECEIVES TRANSPORTATION GRANTS.
Jianling Li, assistant professor in the School of Urban
and Public Affairs, has been awarded two grants by the Texas Department
of Transportation (TxDOT) totaling more than $209,000. Dr. Li’s
studies are designed to improve transportation in Texas by helping TxDOT
meet the rapidly growing demands on existing transportation systems
within the state.

BIOLOGIST DISCOVERS NEW SPECIES OF SNAKE.Biology Department Interim
Chairman Jonathan Campbell recently discovered a new
species of snake in Guatemala. He named the snake Chapinophis xanthocheilus,
which translates to “yellow-lipped Guatemala snake.” Dr.
Campbell has researched reptiles and amphibians in Central America,
South America and Africa for approximately 30 years. A large part of
his collection has been deposited in the University’s scientific
collection of reptiles and amphibians, the largest in Texas.

CENTER MAKING NEIGHBORHOODS SAFER. The
Center for Economic
Development, Research and Service has received a $148,000 grant
from the Justice Department to reduce gun violence in high-crime Dallas
neighborhoods. The Dallas-based U.S. Attorney’s Office selected
CEDRAS as its research partner for crime analysis in implementing the
Bush administration’s Project Safe Neighborhood. The project calls
for the tracking and analysis of crime statistics in high-crime areas
as anti-gun media campaigns are run. Comprising UTA’s research
team are criminology and criminal
justice Assistant Professor O. Elmer Polk, CEDRAS
Executive Director Sherman Wyman, School of Urban and
Public Affairs Dean Richard Cole, CEDRAS project coordinator
Bob Wilkins and graduate research assistant Susan
Au.